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Police in Kentucky Town Ship Mentally Ill Man to Florida, Defying Judge’s Order

By R.G. Dunlop | May 29, 2015

A Carroll County judge ordered police to send a troubled local man to the hospital for psychiatric evaluation. But police had other plans for dealing with their petty crime problem. They sprung him from jail and put him on a bus to Florida.

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